Treñas rips OWWA for breaking COVID protocol
ILOILO City – “I was terribly mad at the
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA),” confessed Mayor Jerry Treñas.
He accused the agency of violating the
protocol on...
Quarantine passes not for sale – DILG director
ILOILO City – The quarantine passes that local
government units are issuing to people through various barangay councils are
free and not for sale, stressed Director...
Panay’s 1st COVID-19 case beats ‘corona’
BY IME SORNITO and GLENDA TAYONA
ILOILO – Panay Island’s and this province’s
first confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a 65-year-old man,
was discharged from...
‘AT RISK’ PEOPLE PRIORITY – DOH: Iloilo City COVID-19 mass tests start today
ILOILO City – Three weeks after Western
Visayas recorded its first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the
Department of Health (DOH) announced it was ready...
Bye PUI, PUM; DOH adopts new classifications
ILOILO City – The Department of Health (DOH)
is adopting new “surveillance definitions” or nomenclatures in the reporting of
cases that for several weeks it had...
95% of Iloilo province PUMs completes 14-day quarantine
ILOILO – Of the 11,799 persons under
monitoring (PUMs) for possible coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection in
this province as of Saturday (April 11), 11,187 or...
‘We have to open private hospitals to COVID patients’
ILOILO City – Private hospitals
here have agreed to admit persons diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19), according to Assistant Secretary Gerard Anthony “Jonji” Gonzales of
the...
Defensor bucks DOH’s ‘twinning arrangement’ for COVID response
ILOILO – “I’m not in favor of
that.”
This was Gov. Arthur Defensor
Jr.’s reaction to the Department of Health (DOH) central office’s order to
appoint its regional...
How the Archdiocese of Jaro gets around COVID restrictions
ILOILO City – The Archdiocese of Jaro may have suspended
Holy Week activities that usually attract huge crowds but it has certainly not
stopped observing Lent...
No Pagtaltal; Guimaras not letting guard down despite COVID-19-free status
ILOILO
City – The island province of Guimaras is raising its pandemic response level
from Level 1 to Level 2 to ensure that it remains free...